Documentation and resources

Online documentation – work in progress

flow5_doc

Presentation documents used in the demonstration videos

flow5 – an introduction
Galerkin methods
Intel’s MKL and multithreading
Fuselages in flow5

Project files used in the tutorials

LU_test.fl5
Control polars.fl5
Fuse_test.fl5
STL_type_fuselage.fl5
shapes.fl5
Sail_analysis.fl5
IBL_differential.fl5

Project files referenced in the online documentation

jibe2_v701_beta18.fl5
STL_beta_14.fl5
STEP_Fuse.fl5
Vorton_core_size.zip
AC75.fl5
STL_sails_beta_17.fl5
Windsurf.fl5

Script files

plane_script.xml
boat_script.xml
foil_script.xml for xflr5 v6.49+

External resources

XFoil Theory document: M. Drela, XFoil: An Analysis and Design System for Low Reynolds Number Airfoils
XFoil program and documentation: https://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/web/xfoil/
Non-linear lifting line theory: J.C. Sivells, R. H. Neely, Method for calculating wing characteristics by lifting-line theory using non-linear section lift data, NACA TN1269, April 1947.
Quad panel method: B. Maskew, Program VSAERO Theory Document, Naca Report 4023,
Viscous loop for panel analyses: E. Ting, D. Chaparro, N. Nguyen, Computationally Efficient Transonic and Viscous Potential Flow Aero-Structural Method for Rapid Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of Aeroelastic Wing Shaping Control, June 2017.
Vortex Particle Wake: An unsteady, accelerated, high order panel method with vortex particle wakes, D. J. Willis, M.I.T. 2006
Numerical integration over triangle panels:
Explicit expressions for 3D boundary integrals in potential theory“, S. Nintcheu Fata 2008.
Potential integrals on triangles”, M. Carley 2012.